Your guide to software uninstall. Join and share your uninstall tips now!

How to Uninstall Anti-Malware

Posted by admin on January 13th, 2010

Developed by Malwarebytes, Anti-Malware is effective to protect your computer from hazrdous software, especially the viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware, and malware that are constantly evolving and becoming harder to detect and remove. And you can have an easily and completely uninstall of Anti-Malware with Perfect Uninstaller if you consider a need to do so.

Simply Normal Uninstall by Perfect Uninstaller can remove Anti-Malware entirely:
1) Run Perfect Uninstaller.
2) Highlight Anti-Malware on its main interface.

3) Then click “Uninstall” button and then “Next” to begin the removal as you can see in the screenshot. 

4) Follow the onscreen prompts to finish the removal.

If all the above steps are done correctly, you should be able to successfully uninstall Anti-Malware.

How to Uninstall ZoneAlarm Secuity

Posted by admin on December 22nd, 2009

ZoneAlarm Security is mainly designed to provide online PCs with protection from being attacked by any hacker or cracker. Its effectiveness and efficiency are obvious, coming from its four chain secuity services: firewall, application program, Internet lock and protection zone.  The newer version has additionally function of IM secuity and Web Filtering. All these secuity measurements inevitably make this software extremely difficult to uninstall. There are few things you should pay attention to in the Registry, when you are conducting uninstall to ZoneAlarm Secuity directly from Control Panel:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zone Labs
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zone Labs\zonealarm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zone Labs\zonealarm\plugin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zone Labs\zonealarm\plugin\obj
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\TrueVector
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm

All the above entries should be deleted menually if you find them leftover after the removal.

Alternatively, performing the uninstall with Perfect Uninstaller is a more standard and easiler way to remove ZoneAlarm, by which can also take you away from the troubles of locating and deleting registry entries:

1) Getting into Safe Mode to totally close the service of ZoneAlarm Secuity.
2) Launch Perfect Uninstaller.
3) Highlight ZoneAlarm Secuity on the main panel.
4) Click “Uninstall” button and “Next” to begin the uninstall.
5) Follow the on-screen prompts to finish the removal.

How to Uninstall Betfilter

Posted by admin on December 15th, 2009

As an effective tool to provide an online gambling control method, Betfilter is always welcome by the “parent control” mechanism. Its high reliability in successfully filtering sites like Online Casinos making it popular for many users. However, sometimes it is too effective that it changes IE settings and filters some sites that seem not to have anything to do with gambling. What’s worse, once your IE settings has been changed, it inevitably turns out to be a demanding task to change back by your own. To uninstall Betfilter without a professional tool at hand, simply follow the instructions:

1) Go to Start->Control Panel->Add/Remove program list, locate the Betfilter record and conduct a deletion.
2) Reboot your computer, then find and delet all the following files:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\aggampax.dat
C:\WINDOWS\system32\aggampax.url 
C:\WINDOWS\system32\agsecure.dll    
C:\WINDOWS\system32\betfilter.ico
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\aggampax.sys

If you find the file aggampax.sys cannot be deleted, reboot your computer and try again. If fails still, you may turn to the Force Uninstall method of Perfect Uninstaller as below:

1) Getting into Safe Mode to totally close all programs of Betfilter. 
2) Launch Perfect Uninstaller.
3) Click “Force Uninstall”, click “YES” to skip pop-up “First please try the ‘Uninstall’ function
4) Click the button next to the textbox of “Scan the proram”, find C:\WINDOWS\system32\aggampax.dat in a pop-up window, follow the on screen steps to finish the removal.
5) Repeat the step 4 for all the files of aggampax.url, agsecure.dll, betfilter.ico and drivers\aggampax.sys.

When all the files mentioned above are forcibly deleted with Perfect Uninstaller, Betfilter will be off your system in its entirety.


Completely Uninstall Weather Channel Desktop 6

Posted by admin on October 15th, 2009

In many cases, we can uninstall Weather Channel Desktop 6 directly from Add/Remove programs and Start/All Programs/Weather Channel/Uninstall. But some times, it is difficult to fully uninstall the program from the computer when it is  corrupted. But if having Perfect Uninstaller in hand, you can quickly uninstall Weather Channel Desktop 6 because the Force Uninstall function allows you to directly uninstall programs from their folders. This is particularly useful in uninstalling any corrupted application.

Now, Force Uninstall Weather Channel Desktop 6
1) Quit Weather Channel Desktop 6 from the right bottom of the desktop.
2) Navigate to the directory C:\Program Files\The Weather Channel FW, right click the folder “Desktop” and select “Force Uninstall” from the right-click menu. Perfect Uninstaller will launch instantly as follows, press “Next” to go. (Note: If your cannot start from the right-click menu, please firstly launch Perfect Uninstaller from Start->All programs->Perfect Uninstaller->Perfect Uninstaller, then go to Options from its main panel. In the General Settings, tick up Right-click to Force Uninstall and check Disable User Account in Change Vista Account Control.)

3) Perfect Uninstaller has found all associated entries, press “Next” to remove.

With the processes above, you can completely uninstall Weather Channel Desktop 6 from your computer, even if it is a corrupted version. But it is a full version, it is greatly recommended to  uninstall it with the Uninstall function first when it is listed in the Display Name list. See the steps below.

1)Run Perfect Uninstaller
2)Highlight Weather Channel Desktop 6  in the Display Name list.
3)Click “Uninstall” button to begin the removal.
4)Follow the on-screen steps to finish the removal.


Uninstall Dogpile Toolbar

Posted by admin on October 12th, 2009

Dogpile Toolbar is a very nice search assistance. Except easy to use,  it has very unique features , for instance, shows live wheather news. To uninstall this toolbar, no matter it is installed for Internet Explore or Firefox, we can normally get the job finished with the two methods Below.

Method One: uninstall it with Windows Add/Remove Programs utility
1) Go to Start->Control Panel-> Add/Remove Programs

2) Locate Dogpile Toolbar and then click Change/Remove button to begin the removal.

Method Two: Uninstall it with its own uninstaller
Go to Start-> All programs -> Dogpile Toolbar -> Uninstall to get rid of it from the computer.

And for Firefox, users are provided another way to uninstall Dogpile Toolbar easily from the computer as what we can see below:
1) Click Tools and then Add-Ons.

2) Find Dogpile Toolbar and then click Uninstall to begin the removal.

3) Follow the on-screen steps to finish the removal.

In many cases, it is necessary for users to manually delete some associated entries both in the drives and the registry entries after the uninstallation processes above. But with Perfect Uninstaller in hand, users can easily uninstall the Dogpile Toolbar either with the Uninstall or the Force Uninstall function.

Uninstall McAfee Security Center

Posted by admin on October 7th, 2009

Normally, we can uninstall McAfee Security Center directly from Add/Remove programs or with it packaged uninstaller as what you can see in the following screenshots. But in many cases, it is necessary to manually delete some associated registry entries within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\McAfee.com. Otherwise, it will stop the program from properly reinstalling on the computer. What is worse, it will result in the incompatibility with another anti-virus program installation. So an advanced uninstaller is needed in order to thoroughly get rid of this program, especially for ones who are not professional on computers.

With Perfect Uninstaller in hand, you can finish the uninstallation processes thoroughly without encountering the above inconvenience.

Force Uninstall McAfee Security Center with Perfect Uninstaller.
1) Get into windows safe mode to totally close all running programs.
2) Find where McAfee Security Center locates on the computer (mostly in C drive).
3) Right click its folder“McAfee.com” and select “Force Uninstall” to begin the removal. Perfect Uninstaller will launch instantly as follows, press “Next” to go. (Note: If you cannot start from the right-click menu, please firstly launch Perfect Uninstaller from Start->All programs->Perfect Uninstaller->Perfect Uninstaller, then go to Options from its main panel. In the General Settings, tick up Right-click to Force Uninstall. If your system is Windows Vista or Win7, also check Disable User Account in Change Vista Account Control.)

4) Press “Next” to start the removal when Perfect Uninstaller has found all relating entries.

5) Follow the on-screen prompts to finish the uninstallation.

With the above steps, you can quickly and thoroughly uninstall McAfee Security Center from your computer. Even though it is corrupted, as long as you can find where it locates on your computer, a right click on its folder to select Force Uninstall will help you  get the removal processes finished relaxingly.

Uninstall Java

Posted by admin on September 8th, 2009

To uninstall Java from Windows computer, you can first to uninstall it from Add/Remove Programs utility in the Microsoft Windows Control Panel.

1) Click Start Menu.
2) Go to Add/Remove Programs within Control Panel.
3) Highlight Java and then click Remove to begin the removal.

4) Click Next when the below window appears.


5) Follow the on-screen prompts to finish the uninstall process.

If the normal method (described above) fails to get rid of it from the computer, please go to use Perfect Uninstaller. Perfect Uninstaller can forcibly uninstall corrupted programs thoroughly without nothing associated left in the drives or registry.


1. Run Perfect Uninstaller.
2. Find the folder directly in the hard drives where you locate Java such as C:\Program Files\Java.
3. Right click the folder to select “Force Uninstall” to begin the removal. (Note: If you cannot start from the right-click menu, please firstly launch Perfect Uninstaller from Start->All programs->Perfect Uninstaller->Perfect Uninstaller, then go to Options from its main panel. In the General Settings, tick up Right-click to Force Uninstall. If your system is Windows Vista or Win7, also check Disable User Account in Change Vista Account Control.)

4. Press Next when Perfect Uninstaller has found all associated entries both in the drives and registry.

5. Follow the on-screen steps to finish the removal.

Note: If Java is listed in the Display Name list after you run Perfect Uninstaller, it is much better to uninstall it there. For Uninstall is the safer way to uninstall programs.

How to uninstall and remove all traces of iTunes

Posted by admin on September 4th, 2009

iTunes is a digital media player application that developed by Apple Inc and used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. When it is installed on the computer, some other components come together such as Apple Mobile Device Support and Apple Software Update, which you can confirm in the first screenshot below. That is why it becomes difficult to thoroughly uninstall this application with normal uninstall method. Here, we take iTunes 8.2.1.6 as an example to tell how to easily uninstall and remove all trace of iTunes programs with Perfect Uninstaller.

Method One: Uninstall iTunes 8.2.1.6
. Run Perfect Uninstaller
. Find iTunes 8.2.1.6 and press “Uninstall” to begin the removal.


. Follow the on-screen steps to finish the removal.

As what I said above, there are other parts coming along with the installation of iTunes. So to completely uninstall all traces of iTunes, it is necessary to uninstall the applications in red circle above one by one.

Method Two: Force Uninstall iTunes 8.2.1.6
. Navigate to the directory of iTunes such as C:\Program Files\iTunes, right click the folder “iTunes” and select “Force Uninstall” from the right-click menu, Perfect Uninstaller will launch instantly as follows, press “Next” to go. (Note: If you cannot start from the right-click menu, please firstly launch Perfect Uninstaller from Start->All programs->Perfect Uninstaller->Perfect Uninstaller, then go to Options from its main panel. In the General Settings, tick up Right-click to Force Uninstall. If your system is Windows Vista or Win7, also check Disable User Account in Change Vista Account Control.)

.Follow the on-screen prompts to finish the removal.

When using Force Uninstall to thoroughly uninstall iTunes from the computer, please also remember to uninstall the following directories in order to completely uninstall iTunes:  C:\Program Files\Bonjour; C:\Program Files\Apple Software Update

After the uninstallation processes above, iTunes will be completely uninstalled from the computer.

How do you uninstall Ad-Aware 2009

Posted by admin on September 1st, 2009

Ad-Aware 2009 is a free anti-spyware program which is highly thought of by lots of people. It provides us with advanced protection against spyware that secretly attaches and takes control of our computer. But when searching the internet, we will find others complain that it will slow down the computer and difficult to be uninstalled when it is not listed in the Add/Remove Programs applet or there is something corrupted with its built-in uninstaller. But with Perfect Uninstaller, no matter it is located in the Control Panel or not, you  can relaxingly get rid of it from your computer.

With Perfect Uninstaller, we can completely uninstall this program with two methods: Uninstall and Force Uninstall

Method One: Uninstall it with “Uninstall” function
1) Run Perfect Uninstaller.
2) Highlight Ad-Aware 2009 on its main interface.
3) Then click “Uninstall” button and then “Next” to begin the removal as you can see in the screenshot.


4) Click “Uninstall” when the following window appears.


5) Follow the on-screen prompts to finish the removal.

Method two: Uninstall it with “Force Uninstall” function

If the program you want to uninstall is not in the “Display Name” list after you run Perfect Uninstaller or it still functions well after “Uninstall”, please go to use “Force Uninstall” which is the most powerful way to uninstall software.

1) Find the folder directly in the hard drive where you locate Ad-Aware 2009.
2) Click its directory and then select “Force Uninstall” to begin the removal. (Note: If you cannot start from the right-click menu, please firstly launch Perfect Uninstaller from Start->All programs->Perfect Uninstaller->Perfect Uninstaller, then go to Options from its main panel. In the General Settings, tick up Right-click to Force Uninstall. If your system is Windows Vista or Win7, also check Disable User Account in Change Vista Account Control.)

3) Then follow the on-screen steps to finish the uninstallation processes.

After the uninstallation steps above, Ad-Aware 2009 will be completely removed from your computer. And the method above is available in uninstalling any version of Ad-Aware programs.

How to uninstall PC MightyMax 2009

Posted by admin on August 31st, 2009

PC MightyMax 2009 is a fake program that always scares us with the popping-up windows and  distracting alerts it order to make us purchase it. It is very difficult to uninstall it with normal ways: by control panel or its built-in uninstaller. But with Perfect Uninstaller, this problem can be solved easily.

To completely uninstall PC MightyMax 2009 from your computer, first you have to get into windows safe mode to totally close the program for it is difficult to exit it in normal mode without purchasing it  and other running programs.

With Perfect Uninstaller, you are provided two ways to uninstall PC MightyMax 2009 thoroughly from your computer: Uninstall and Force Uninstall.

First, please try “Uninstall” function
1) Run Perfect Uninstaller.
2) Click PC MightyMax 2009 on its main interface.
3) Then click “Uninstall” button and then “Next” to begin the removal.

4) Click “Next” when the below pop-up appears.

5) Follow the on-screen prompts to finish the removal.

Second, uninstall it with “Force Uninstall” function
In case that PC MightyMax 2009  is not in the “Display Name” list after you run Perfect Uninstaller, you can go to use Force Uninstall, which is the most powerful way in uninstalling applications.

1) Run Perfect Uninstaller
2) Click “Force Uninstall” on its main interface.
3) Click “OK” to skip the pop-up: First please try the “Uninstall” function!

4) Locate the name of the program into the first blank.

5) Navigate the path of the program into the second blank.

5) Click “Next” and follow the on-screen steps to finish the removal.

No matter you are using Uninstall or Force Uninstall function, PC MightyMax 2009 will be completely removed from your computer after the uninstallation processes above.

RECOMMENDED
updated on 11/06/2008.
Categories
Archives
Search
Recent Posts
Meta
Copyright © 2007-2010 UninstallTips.com. All rights reserved.